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I haven't written any Go, but the FAQ (http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#principles http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#principles) says: "There are no forward d
by wtetzner 14y ago
I haven't written any Go, but the FAQ (http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#principles http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#principles) says:
"There are no forward declarations and no header files; everything is declared exactly once."
Is the author just wrong, or has the language changed since the FAQ was last updated?
- mseepgood 14y agoHe confuses forward declarations with "declaring the type before the variable name".
- nollidge 14y agoI think you mean "declaring the variable name before the type". So C is "int x" where Go is "x int". BASIC is typically more like "DIM x AS INTEGER".
- tptacek 14y agoFor the record: as someone who started in the early '90s in C, I hate hate hate the Go declaration syntax. But the designers make a very compelling case for why it's the right syntax: C function pointers are needlessly convoluted.
- erichocean 14y agoScala is the same way, and their rational is that it makes it easy (in the parser, I guess) to just omit the type. It is weird at first, but you get used to it, like everything syntactic.
- batista 14y ago>For the record: as someone who started in the early '90s in C, I hate hate hate the Go declaration syntax. Why hate something trivial that takes 2 minutes to adjust to and has benefits without any drawbacks whatsoever?
- thebigshane 14y agoDoesn't hating something usually imply that one is being irrational about it? I'm sure `tptacek` will get over it :-)